Literary notes about represent (AI summary)
The term "represent" is used in literature with great versatility, acting as a bridge between the literal and the symbolic. In some works it denotes the depiction of measurable phenomena or numerical values, as when physical quantities are set to represent certain mathematical relations ([1], [2], [3]). In other contexts, it assumes the role of a surrogate or symbol, whether in political assemblies where delegates stand in for an entire group ([4], [5], [6]) or in literary allegories where characters and events are imbued with deeper, often moral or mythic, significance ([7], [8], [9]). Moreover, the word is employed to capture both the idea of signification in art and language—as seen in discussions on poetry in prose or the abstraction of logical symbols ([10], [11], [12])—and the representation of more concrete imagery, such as portraits or symbolic figures ([13], [14]). This multifaceted usage enriches the text, inviting readers to interpret layers of meaning beyond the surface narrative.
- Composition of impulsions, of quantities of motion, or the areas which represent them.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - 95.—THE FOUR SEVENS.— solution The way to write four sevens with simple arithmetical signs so that they represent 100 is as follows:— 7 / .7 × 7 / .7
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney - It is the reverse for the cosine , which may serve very well to represent an angle near 90 degrees, while it would be very inexact for small angles.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Accordingly several American societies saw fit to send women, as delegates, to represent them in that august assembly.
— from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I - It sometimes happens that a nation is divided into two nearly equal parties, each of which affects to represent the majority.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville - In America, where they only represent a minority of the nation, they argue and they petition.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville - It aimed not only to represent life but to correct it, and to offer a solution to pressing moral and social problems.
— from English Literature by William J. Long - It would totally fail to represent its conditions, and consequently would imply nothing about its continued existence.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - What, then, did he represent but Jesus, who, before He was offered up, was crowned with thorns by the Jews?
— from The City of God, Volume II by Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine - And this we can evidently represent by placing a Red Counter (here represented by a dotted circle) on the partition which divides the North Half.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll - To attempt to represent Poetry in Prose, is very much like attempting to translate music into speech.
— from Faust [part 1]. Translated Into English in the Original Metres by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Written words are signs made with the pen to represent and recall to the mind the spoken words (or voice-signs).
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge - As the bull with a human head, so a human being with cow's horns, was made to represent a deity.
— from Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism by Thomas Inman and M.R.C.S.E. John Newton - A figure used by Pythagoras, consisting of ten points, arranged in a triangular form so as to represent the monad, duad, triad, and quarterniad.
— from The symbolism of Freemasonry : by Albert Gallatin Mackey
